“…This root distribution in the control management has already been described by Padilla et al [39] in greenhouse pepper cultivation in the province of Almería and may be due to situations of continued hypoxia as a result of the combined effect of the decrease in air-filled porosity due to the high relative saturation of the soil maintained constantly throughout the crop (Supplementary Materials Figure S1) [60,61] and low dissolved oxygen in irrigation water [62] Hypoxia conditions, which weaken the aerobic respiration of roots, modify root distribution [6,23,63,64] and can result in decreased energy metabolism and reduced crop yield. The presence of nanobubbles with low buoyancy, high persistence in the irrigation solution, and strong gas mass transfer ability allows air or oxygen to be continuously dissolved in the soil pore water which will favour root respiration in the moisture-saturated zones around the emitter and at depth, increasing the efficiency of water and nutrient uptake [22,63,65]. This effect seems to translate into higher values of the ANUE (agronomic nitrogen use efficiency) and fWUE (field water use efficiency) indices obtained for the nanobubble treatments (Table 7).…”